Lammas Feast

Roger the Chapman looks into the stabbing death of Jasper Fairbrother, a Bristol baker, as Lammastide (""Loaf-mass"") approaches in Kate Sedley's 11th medieval mystery, The Lammas Feast, after The Saint John's Fern (Forecasts, July 15). As usual, Sedley offers an absorbing view of 15th-century English society and politics, along with an intricate plot to keep readers guessing who really did in Fairbrother.